CAFI Newsletter #327

[CHRISTIAN ACTION FOR ISRAEL NEWSLETTER]

CAFI Newsletter
      Newsletter #327     Friday, May 4, 2007 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      This is a small sampling of the many excellent articles published this week. For more, please visit our Home Page. 

            The Land of Israel Necklace
            consists of a crystal glass pendant filled with the entire Land of Israel including Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Nazareth, The Sea of Galilee, The Jordan River, The Dead Sea, as well as other locations. The earth inside has beautiful color variations creating a natural layered effect. By wearing the Land of Israel as a beautiful necklace, the land remains in one's consciousness and, literally, close to the heart. 
        a.. A searing indictment
        Jerusalem Post - May 4, 2007
         Central to our very existence here is the imperative that Israel, under its new chief of General Staff and more capable leaders, overhaul the way it governs and defends itself. That is the urgent message at the boiling heart of the Winograd Report. 

        b.. The fruits of Hizbullah's victory
        Caroline Glick - Jerusalem Post - May 4, 2007
         So too, in recent months the US has embraced the Palestinians. Although the speaker of the Palestinian legislature Ahmad Bahar just made a televised appeal to Allah to kill every Jew and American on earth, Rice insists on transferring $59 million in US taxpayer money to the Palestinian security forces. So too, last week the State Department dictated a list of security concessions that Israel must make to the Palestinians over the next eight months regardless of whether the Palestinians themselves cease their attacks on Israel, or for that matter, regardless of whether the Palestinians maintain their commitment to annihilating the Israel and the US. 

        c.. The Olmert team hasn't learned - and won't
        IMRA - May 4, 2007
         The Olmert team didn't learn from their mistakes until now and there is no reason to expect the future to be any different. For the sake of the nation they must go home. 

        d.. From Jerusalem to the USA
        by Stan Goodenough - IsraelNationalNews.com - May 3, 2007 
        I am writing this from the food court at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, where I have just "enjoyed" a Big Mac - getting ready for what lies ahead of me I guess. 

        About two hours ago I took leave of my family in Jerusalem, and in just under an hour I will board an El Al Jumbo Jet for my 13-hour flight to the United States. 

        For the next four weeks I, together with my mentor and good friend Jan Willem van der Hoeven - director of the Benjamin-based International Christian Zionist Center - will be traveling through a number of different states from one side of America to the other, there to speak with church leaders and congregations, and also with political leaders in Washington DC, about developments in the relationship between the US and the State of Israel. 

        We leave an Israel that is in political turmoil and simultaneously exceedingly grave danger. The Winograd Commission of Inquiry into the prosecution of the Second Lebanon War released its findings earlier this week: a damning indictment of failure and incompetence that goes to the highest levels of the government and military. 

        As infighting intensifies and demands for the prime minister's resignation come hard and fast from every side, Israel's enemies in Damascus and Lebanon are gloating, repeating their claim to have defeated the IDF last summer even as they continue to prepare for their next assault on the Jewish state. 

        Some fear the explosion could come really soon, as the Arabs take advantage of the turmoil tearing away at Israel's insides. 

        Many experts have said they believe there will be another war this year, one that will likely include Syria and even, God forbid, the use of non-conventional weapons. 

        It is not esy, then, to leave this nation and my family in the midst of all this uncertainty. 

        I believe very strongly, however, in the need to impress on Christians and leaders in America the fact that the last war was - and the next one will be - in no small way attributable to the US-led land-for-peace process that has seen Israel weakened from within and without. 

        Madrid, Oslo and the Road Map have left Israel far more vulnerable today than she would have been if the nations had not so leaned on her to go this way of compromise and unilateral surrender to the demands of the Arabs. 

        Israel is in the center of a grave crisis. Things look like getting a whole lot worse before they will start to get better. 

        We believe it would be good - for Israel and for the United States - if instead of bewailing, as he has done, the imminent political demise of Ehud Olmert, whose leadership President George W. Bush suggested earlier this week was important to the successful realization of the "two state solution," if the White House itself will be open to accepting the Winograd findings. 

        For these findings not only indict the failed Israeli leadership; they also highlight the failure of the land-for-peace process to bring any measure of peace at all to the people of the Jewish state. 

        Israel, under pressure, pulled unilaterally out of southern Lebanon, which today is a terrorist stronghold positively bristling with surface-to-surface missiles and threatening to bleed Israel again in order to trigger another war. 

        Israel, under pressure, pulled unilaterally out of Gaza, which today is a terrorist stronghold positively laden with weapons and explosives, and which seeks daily to bleed Israel until it succeeds in pulling the IDF back into the Strip and initiating intense conflict in the south. 

        America's decades-old land-for-peace process has pushed Israel into this extremely precarious position, and threatens to exacerbate things even more if it can successfully bring about Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Samaria and Judea. 

        Within months the newly-vacated biblical heartland of Israel will, too, be turned into a terrorist mecca. Towering over Israel's densely populated and highly-industrial coastal plain, with an open channel feeding arms, including missiles, in from Iran and any Arab state that wants to be in at "the end" - this "State of Palestine" will threaten Israel's very existence. 

        It will threaten, too, the American economy, which is so dependable on the maintenance of stability in the Middle East. 

        The United States - so blessed by God with power, influence and prosperity - and which has already tasted the fury of heaven as it has sought to divide up the Land of Israel, is playing with, not Israel's existence, but its own. 

        This is the grave and, in fact, fearful warning we are bringing to America. It will not be a popular message. We will not be welcomed with it. But it is a warning we have to sound: 

        9-11, Katrina, and all the other disasters and threatened disasters will pale, we believe, in comparison with what is poised to come upon the United States if, after all the pain, bloodshed and warfare US-promoted Middle East peace policies have wreaked on the people of Israel, the US persists in pushing Israel down this road. 

        May God give us the words to say and the courage to say them. And may He bring across our paths ears to hear, and hearts to respond, to what we have to share. 

                    The Mountains of Israel is an exciting and refreshing new perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict, clearly outlining how God is fulfilling His Word in modern-day Israel.
              Free with a $ 11.95 USD per copy Donation!  Click button at left for PayPal or visit our "Mountains" page onsite.  



--------------------------------------------------------------------------

          Click Here! Get A Free Gift With Your Donation!   

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

        NOTICE: We make EVERY effort to insure our newsletter is not received unsolicited. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter, please send an email to newsletter at christianactionforisrael.org with "REMOVE" in either the subject or body of your message. Please ensure the email is sent from the address receiving the newsletter! Thank you.
      We depend ENTIRELY on viewer/reader donations. PLEASE HELP US get the truth out about Israel and God's chosen people. All needed info at: http://christianactionforisrael.org/donations.html 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

      PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NEWSLETTER ! 
      Send Comments/Suggestions to newsletter at christianactionforisrael.org 

      TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE visit http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/cafi-list 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/cafi-list/attachments/20070504/0287a0ed/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 8868 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/cafi-list/attachments/20070504/0287a0ed/attachment.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 8192 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/cafi-list/attachments/20070504/0287a0ed/attachment-0001.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2412 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/cafi-list/attachments/20070504/0287a0ed/attachment-0002.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1080 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : <http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/cafi-list/attachments/20070504/0287a0ed/attachment-0003.jpe>